NewSpace 2007 Program

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2007

Thursday, July 19

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Commercial-Military Spaceplane Day

09:00 – 09:05 Welcoming RemarksJeff Krukin -

Executive Director, Space Frontier Foundation

Jeff Krukin

's direct involvement in space began in 1979 with a summer job at NASA Headquarters. Hereturned to NASA Headquarters in 1981, with a six-month graduate internship in the InternationalAffairs Division. He was in the auditorium when the space shuttle Columbia was first launched onApril 12th.Returning to Houston determined to participate in the space program, Jeff became an IBM SystemsEngineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center. His emotional commitment to NASA died a slow and painful death, and Jeff searched for a different way to support human space activity.Invited to become a Space Frontier Foundation Advocate in 1990, Jeff spent several years conducting research for various projects, writing a monthly column on space issues entitled "Think About It" that appeared in the

Journal for Space Development

and other space newsletters. He has also been published online and in

Ad Astra

,

Space News

, the

HoustonChronicle

and the

Houston Business Journal

, and Chelsea House published his first book essays in Spring 2005.Jeff received the 1998 ProSpace Activist of the Year Award. In 1999 he became Vice President of March Storm. Jeff became Chairman in 2002 and served until 2004. Since January 2005, Jeff has been Executive Director of the SpaceFrontier Foundation.

09:05 – 09:15 Opening Remarks

Charles Miller –

President, Space Policy Consulting, Inc.

Charles Miller

is the President of Space Policy Consulting, Inc., a small business that providesconsulting services to the space industry.Mr. Miller is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Services International, Inc.CSI was founded in 1998, and is an entrepreneurial orbital spaceflight services company that is focusedon commercial opportunities in Earth orbit. CSI is developing the

LEO Express

SM Space Cargo System,an innovative, patented method for re-supplying space stations that uses over 99% existing technology.The

LEO Express

SM space cargo system completed a NASA system design review in July 2003.Prior to CSI, Mr. Miller was the founding Chairman and President of ProSpace, where he served from 1996 to 1999.Known also as "The Citizens' Space Lobby," ProSpace was one of the most effective space policy groups working onCapitol Hill. Under Mr. Miller's leadership, ProSpace was instrumental in the passage of vital space-related legislativeinitiatives, including the Commercial Space Act of 1998, funding for NASA's X-33, Future-X and Space Solar Power programs, and the U.S. Air Force RLV Technology Development program.Mr. Miller has received several awards for his work in the field, including the "Vision in Action" award from the SpaceFrontier Foundation, the "Space Pioneer" award from the National Space Society, and the "Exceptional Leadership" awardfrom the California Space Development Council.

09:15 – 09:45 Keynote AddressIntroduction: Bruce Thieman –

AFRL, Functional Capability Lead

Keynote: Gary Payton -

Deputy Under Secretary for Space, USAF

Bruce Thieman

is the Air Force Research Laboratory Functional CapabilityLead for the Operationally Responsive Spacelift Capability Area. TheResponsive Spacelift team is developing the technologies leading to a flighttest bed for a reusable booster first stage space launch vehicle. The grounddemonstration efforts for reusable access to space technologies have been released for bid for award in September andcompletion by 2011.Mr Thieman started a 31-year military and civilian career in the Air Force at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, as a Senior Electronic Intelligence Analyst with the 544

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Intelligence Exploitation Squadron. In the subsequent years, he served as aStrategic Electronic Warfare Analyst and Nuclear Weapons Effects Specialist at Strategic Air Command, a Command,Control and Communications Analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff/J6, the Air War College and Air Command and Staff College Space Curriculum lead instructor, and then Chief of Simulation and Wargaming for Theater Operations at ACSC.He has also served as the Chief Engineer of the Defense Dissemination Program Office, the Director of Space IndustryStudies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Chief of the National Systems Integration Division and then leadfor the US Space Master Plan at US Space Command, ending his military career of 26 years with the Air Force ResearchLaboratory as the Deputy Director for the Space Vehicles Research and then Director of Operations and Support andCorporate Information Officer (CIO) retiring as a Colonel.In September 2002, Mr Thieman returned to the Air Force as the Program Manager, Enterprise Business System ProgramOffice at Wright Patterson AFB working business processes transformation for AF Science and Technology. Hesubsequently led the technology transfer effort for AFRL. In 2005, Mr Thieman took the lead at the Air VehiclesDirectorate at Wright Patterson for technology development supporting AF Space Commands affordable and responsivespacelift initiatives. Mr Thieman is a graduate of the Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, Air War College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.Mr Thieman attended the University of Idaho and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force ROTC program in 1976. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Radar, Communications and ElectronicWarfare from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1977 and a Masters in International Security Affairs from NationalDefense University in 1994.

Gary E. Payton

is the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs, Washington, D.C.He provides guidance, direction and oversight for the formulation, review and execution of militaryspace programs. This includes oversight of all space and space-related acquisition plans, strategies andassessments for research, development, test, evaluation and space-related industrial base issues.Mr. Payton earned his Bachelor of Science degree in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air ForceAcademy and his Master of Science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from PurdueUniversity. As an Air Force officer, he served as a pilot, instructor pilot, spacecraft operations director and space technology manager. In 1985, he flew as a payload specialist on board the Space Shuttle Discovery in the firstmilitary flight of the space shuttle program. He was instrumental in the initiation and management of the Midcourse Sensor Experiment, the Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile, Delta-183, Talon Shield, Clementine and the DC-X launchvehicle technology project.Mr. Payton has also served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Transportation Technology where heinitiated, planned and led the Reusable Launch Vehicle technology demonstration program, which included the X-33, X-34,X-37 and DC-XA flight test projects.

09:45 – 10:45 U.S. Government's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Access Plans &Programs

Panelists:

Joseph D. Rouge (Chair) -

Associate Director, National Security Space Organization

Robert Hickman –

Principal Scientist for Next Generation Launch Systems, Aerospace Corp.

Lt. Col. James Nugent –

Deputy Division Chief, AFSC/A5 (Requirements)

Jeff Sponable –

AFRL, FAST Program

Bruce Thieman –

AFRL, Functional Capability Lead